[The therapeutic concept of euthymic treatment. The little school of pleasure].

With the aid of euthymic treatment, patients can learn to open up to, and enjoy, positive occurrences, to create their own space for well-being, and to develop a higher level of self-care. Changes in both the cognitive and the sensual planes in particular, are goals to be aimed at. The concept of euthymic therapy has developed on the basis of research on enjoyment and a therapeutic program known as the "little school of pleasure." Today, this program is being applied in a variety of different categories of patients, for example, depressives, alcoholics, schizophrenics, neurological, traumatized and chronic-pain patients, as well as those hospitalized in psychosomatic and psychiatric institutions.